Philippe Lintern is the Head of the Foreign Exchange Division at the Bank of England, which manages foreign exchange reserves for the Bank and the UK government. He represents the Bank on the FXJSC and GFXC committee. Prior to joining the Bank, Philippe spent more than 20 years working in the FX industry.

Elliot Hentov is head of macro policy research in State Street Global Advisors' global macro team. He is responsible for research and thought leadership, linking policy impulses to financial markets and economics, and is the company's chief geopolitical strategist. Hentov joined State Street from Standard & Poor's sovereign ratings group where he was a director and lead analyst for sovereigns and government-related entities in central, eastern and Mediterranean Europe. Before that, he served as a political affairs officer at the UN's headquarters in New York, advising senior officials on political and economic issues in the Middle East and Europe. Hentov holds a PhD from Princeton University and a master's degree in international affairs from Georgetown University and has authored publications in the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Business Times, Foreign Policy, and Washington Quarterly. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum in London and a non-resident fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC.

Arnab Das joined Invesco in London in 2015 as head of EMEA and EM macro research and has been global macro strategist, EMEA since 2018, engaging on economics, policy and markets with institutional and official investors, governments, the IMF and other official institutions, as well as Invesco investment teams. Arnab has 30 years of investment industry experience, including co-head of economic research and strategy, Roubini Global Economics (2009-2013); co-head, global economics and strategy, head of FX strategy and head of EM research, Dresdner Kleinwort (2001-09); head of EMEA EM research and senior EM strategist, JP Morgan (1992-2001). He has provided policy advice and views on economics, markets, communication, sovereign risk and ratings to policymakers in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, South Africa, India, Indonesia, South Korea, governments affected by the Eurozone crisis, the IMF and the US Treasury. Arnab studied at Princeton (AB) and LSE (PhD). His research interests include economics, economic and financial history, geopolitics and geo-economics.

Mark Williamson is the Managing Director and Global Head of FX & Commodities Partnerships and Propositions at HSBC.

With over 30 years of experience in banking and finance, Mark has a diverse background in trading, operations, and technology. He has led successful transformation programs across various domains and has been instrumental in the development of several Tier 1 Bank’s Single and Multi-Dealer platforms.

Mark has pioneered innovative projects such as the launch of FX Everywhere, a DLT solution for Post FX Trade Payment vs Payment, and has been actively involved in CBDC FX engagement with numerous Central Banks. Currently, he is responsible for assessing and implementing Digital technologies, focusing on Cash, Capital, and Collateral, and overseeing their impacts on Risk, Liquidity, Operations, and Technology within the Foreign Exchange and Commodities business.

Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director, Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation for Financial Markets, at ING Bank. Stephane is responsible for following the market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry. He is leading innovation activities internal to ING and also external partnerships and developments with Fintech companies. He actively contributes to industry working groups to represent ING Bank.

Stéphane joined ING in 2015 to lead the bank e-commerce initiatives across all financial market products and to develop on the financial market group’s cross-asset eCommerce strategy. Before joining ING, Stephane spent eight years at Société Générale, where he was Global Head of FIC eCommerce, creating an eCommerce business covering credit, rates, money market, emerging market, and FX. Prior to this, Stéphane worked at JPMorgan Chase for ten years, serving in different roles in Global FX E-Commerce Business Management and cross-asset eCommerce technology and was based in London and New York.

Stephane has a strong background in financial markets and understands the need for continued technological development to drive positive change in trading and market structure workflows. He is leading ING's Financial Market Innovation strategy and also working on the implementation of financial regulations that will impact the client trading activities and transform how the trading floor operates.

Stephane is also a board member for several Fintech market initiatives and trading associations. Since 2005 he has been active with the ACI Financial Market Association - an international non-profit organisation that represents the interests of market professionals in foreign exchange and money markets. Here, he has chaired the ACI FX Committee, representing the views of professionals in the FX sector. He is also an active member of the ECB FX contact group working on the BIS Global FX code of conduct working groups.

Toby Baker is the Global head of Foreign Exchange Trading in the Fixed Income Trading department. Toby is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price International Ltd. 

Since leaving school in 1987, my work life experience started with an administrative role at the London Stock exchange and then transitioned to a settlement’s role at Framlington Unit Management. My trading experience began in 1995 and have been with T. Rowe Price since 2001. Prior to this, I was employed by Daiwa SB Asset Management and JP Morgan Chase Fleming Asset Management as a foreign exchange dealer.

Andrei Kazantsev is Global Head of Cryptocurrency Derivatives Trading at Goldman Sachs. In that role, he manages crypto derivatives risk for the firm and is responsible in leading the expansion of the range of institutional crypto-related products and services offered at Goldman Sachs to new and existing clients. In conjunction, Andrei continues to work within Foreign Exchange Options trading team, that he joined in 2011, focusing on exotic products and risk management of exotic options portfolios.

Andrei holds a Masters Degree and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London.

He is a trustee of Tête-à-Tête – an opera charity and serves on the Strategic Advisory Board at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.

Jim is a Senior Managing Director, and Global Head of eFX Trading at State Street. Prior to joining State Street, Jim was the Global Head of Product Strategy at FXall, and a member of the management team. Jim started his career in eFX Trading at Dresdner Kleinwort in 2000. He graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy and Psychology.

Lawrence is the Global Head of Automated Trading Strategies (CEM) at JPMorganChase. He leads a team responsible for the firm's FX electronic market-making business, utilizing systematic and quantitative approaches to drive performance and innovation. With over 20 years of experience in the financial industry, Lawrence has held key positions at several top-tier banks. Prior to his current role, he served as the Asia Head of Macro ATS, where he focused on electronic market-making across a range of macro products.

Lauren van Biljon is a portfolio manager and the head of Rates & FX for the Global Fixed Income team at Allspring Global Investments. In this role, she is responsible for macro portfolio allocation, portfolio positioning, and risk management for rates and FX. Lauren joined Allspring from its predecessor firm, Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). Lauren earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Cape Town and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Edinburgh. Lauren has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation and is a member of the Society of Technical Analysts.

Roel is the head of the Quantitative R&D Lab for sales and trading at Deutsche Bank. He started his industry career as a quant in electronic cash equity trading in 2006, and subsequently held various roles in electronic FX spot trading, including co-head of the business, and then ran FIC electronic trading. Roel holds a PhD in econometrics, is an honorary visiting professor in department of mathematics at Imperial College London, and has published widely on the econometric analysis of high frequency data and OTC trading.

Mimi Rushton is Head of Global FX Distribution & Co-Head of Risk Solutions Group (RSG) at Barclays, responsible for client coverage focused on FX and Rate risk management. She is a member of the Macro Management Team. Since joining Barclays in 2007 in a Rates and FX sales role, Mimi has held a number of management roles in London and New York. She was appointed Global Co-Head of FX Distribution in July 2019, and in 2023 she assumed additional responsibility for the Risk Solutions Group, leveraging her extensive experience in risk management with corporate and sponsor clients. Mimi has held a rotational appointment on the Global Markets Executive Committee and served as an ex-officio member on the Group Executive Committee throughout 2021. Alongside her client responsibilities, Mimi is a fervent advocate for diversity and inclusion, actively driving events and initiatives to foster an inclusive environment for colleagues across Global Markets division and the Investment Bank. Mimi is a member of the Bank of England Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee (FXJSC) and is the on the Board for the Global Financial Markets Association Foreign Exchange Division (GFXD). Mimi began her career in Rates Sales at Lloyds TSB in London. She holds a Masters of Engineering degree from Cambridge University.

Brigitte Le Bris began her career at Credit Lyonnais London in 1986, before becoming a trader in 1987 and subsequently joining Banque Bruxelles Lambert (now ING) in 1989. In 1993, she joined CDC Asset Management where she successively held a senior money market, euro fixed income and international fixed income portfolio management positions. In 2000, she joined  Société Générale Asset Management (now Amundi) where she became Head of Currency and Global Fixed Income in 2003, and successfully developed Global Sovereign, Global Aggregate, Currency Absolute Return and Multi-strategy strategies.

Brigitte joined Ostrum Asset Management (formerly Natixis AM) in late 2010 as Head of Global Fixed Income and Currencies: one of her duty being to start the EM franchise. In the last years, she also covered Euro and global sovereign as well as Inflation expertise before now focusing mainly on EM and Total Return.

Education and degrees.

Brigitte Le Bris post graduated as a civil engineer from the ESTP (Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics). She also holds a Master's degree in Corporate Finance from the University of Paris Pantheon Sorbonne.

Tgetg Roethlin is a specialist in FX currently heading the EMEA eFX Principal Trading Division for UBS. Tgetg started his journey at UBS in 2008 in FX Prime Brokerage. He then moved to business management, later settling in eFX trading in 2011. Ever since 2019, he has been leading the EMEA eTrading team. Tgetg has a BSc in Nutritional Engineering from ETH in Zurich and has also been awarded his CFA.

Brian started Finteum in 2018, to create an interbank market for intraday liquidity. Finteum is now live with intraday FX swaps, with CIBC and UBS having completed the first production trades earlier in 2024. Intraday repo is following soon. Prior to Finteum, Brian worked for 8 years in the front office and treasury in liquidity in UBS and Bank of Ireland.

Jonathan Webb is Head of C8 Hedge, an FX hedging platform which employs advanced systematic trading models to help businesses easily and effectively manage their currency exposures. Having started his career as an economist, Jon went on to be Head FX Strategy at Jefferies following portfolio manager and proprietary trading roles at organisations including HSBC, Credit Suisse, RBS and Bank of America. 

Graham is the CEO of BlueX, he leads the new FX EMS set to revolutionise the market with integrated Pre-Trade analytics, providing real-time insights for informed decisions, resulting in optimal execution efficiency.

As a finance veteran with over 25 years’ experience, Graham’s career spans investment banking, fintech trading platforms, and leading elite sales and relationship management teams.

Graham ran the regulatory board for both Refinitiv and LSEG’s MTF businesses as CEO, and has a deep domain understanding of financial markets and insights from overseeing some of the world’s largest FX platforms.

He has held leadership roles at JP Morgan, Thomson Reuters, Refinitiv, and LSEG and has an MA and LLB from the University of Glasgow.

Rob is part of the XTX distribution team, responsible for the acquisition and liquidity management of their FX, European equities and US equities franchise. Prior to this, he spent 4.5 years at EBS, firstly as a relationship manager and then moving into product, focused on the central limit order book and API customers.

Sam Horowitz’s nearly 30 year career in the financial markets has spanned a variety of trading and management roles across sellside, buyside and intermediary businesses. Sam currently serves on the ACI's UK Executive Committee as well as it's global FX committee. Currently working within Treasury Markets leadership at cross border payments firm Wise, he formerly headed up Global Markets eFX Trading at BBVA, with previous stints also building and managing trading businesses at CMC Markets, Rabobank, UBS Asset Management, Louis Capital FX, Lloyds Bank and Marex Spectron adding to his broad cross market and cross asset experience.

Noel Singh is Head of eFX Business Development at Sucden Financial, leading the firm’s expansion of its non-bank FX prime brokerage business. He has over 25 years of experience in banking and currency trading and joined the company from ABN Amro Clearing Bank, where he managed their OTC FX clearing business.

Past positions include Head of FX Prime Brokerage for SEB and senior roles at Integral Development, Dresdner Kleinwort, EBS and also Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, prior to its merger.

Joe Parsons is deputy editor on the global markets desk. He was formerly deputy editor at Global Custodian, and prior to that he was at The Trade.

Duncan Wood is the London-based editor-in-chief of Risk.net. He was promoted to the role at the start of 2015, to lead the editorial reorganisation of the website and its print titles. Wood had been editor of Risk magazine since July 2011. He rejoined Risk as European editor in October 2009, having originally worked for Risk and Asia Risk in London and Hong Kong as a writer and researcher between 1998 and 2000.

In the intervening years, Wood was news editor for the Oliver Wyman-founded online start-up ERisk.com. He also worked freelance for six years while living in Germany, with his work featuring in Euromoney, Financial News, IFR, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as Risk magazine and its sister titles. Wood has written about derivatives and risk throughout his 17-year career in journalism. He is a Neal Awards finalist, and has won Incisive Media's journalist and editor of the year awards.

Lukas Becker is the Markets desk editor for Risk.net. His topics of interest include over-the-counter derivatives pricing, collateral management, market infrastructure and legal risk. He is based in London.

He was previously the Europe, Middle East and Africa editor of Risk magazine.

Highly experienced financial services executive with a proven track record in building and growing several commercially successful Electronic FX Execution businesses. Achieved through a deep understanding of the OTC FX electronic trading market, relationships and strong people management skills augmented with passion and hard work. Underwritten by a strong emphasis on client adoption, revenue and profits, organisational efficiency, and strategic alignment.

Chirine is the co-founder and CEO of TwoWay, building next-gen solutions for investment bank traders. TwoWay optimizes market-making workflows, making traders' lives easier, while bringing unique real-time market insights to front-office and risk teams.
Prior to TwoWay, Chirine was the global head of innovation at Finastra and spent more than 15 years in the financial software space.

As Pico's Chairman, Founder and CEO, Jarrod defines the company vision and leads the executive team on business strategy and execution.
His responsibilities include interacting with clients and investors, reviewing and discussing product innovation and global expansion, and ensuring organizational stability.
Most importantly, Jarrod is committed to listening to clients, a core principle responsible for Pico’s growth.

Jarrod has over 20 years of experience in institutional trading.

Prior to founding Pico, Jarrod served as Global Head of Electronic Trading at Merrill Lynch, where he oversaw the business from its inception and was responsible for sales, trading, risk, execution service, product development and quantitative analytics for these products worldwide.
Before working on Wall Street, Jarrod worked as a product engineer and conducted semiconductor research at Intel.

Asif Razaq is an experienced foreign exchange algo trader with over 15 years of experience developing electronic trading platforms. He has a masters of science degree in artificial intelligence (AI) and joined BNP Paribas from Citi, where he worked on various initiatives including e-FX pricing engines and algorithmic trading. Utilising his experience in AI, Razaq developed and launched Cortex iX, a cutting-edge FX algorithmic execution platform that has been highly acclaimed by clients and industry experts globally.

Prior to taking responsibility for FX Prime Services, Marcus was responsible for sales across Prime Brokerage, Futures & OTC Clearing and for the OTC Clearing product in EMEA.

Before joining RBS, Marcus spend 17 years at UBS where he held a number of roles in Prime Services, Securities Lending and FX

Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director, Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation for Financial Markets, at ING Bank. Stephane is responsible for following the market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry. He is leading innovation activities internal to ING and also external partnerships and developments with Fintech companies. He actively contributes to industry working groups to represent ING Bank.

Stéphane joined ING in 2015 to lead the bank e-commerce initiatives across all financial market products and to develop on the financial market group’s cross-asset eCommerce strategy. Before joining ING, Stephane spent eight years at Société Générale, where he was Global Head of FIC eCommerce, creating an eCommerce business covering credit, rates, money market, emerging market, and FX. Prior to this, Stéphane worked at JPMorgan Chase for ten years, serving in different roles in Global FX E-Commerce Business Management and cross-asset eCommerce technology and was based in London and New York.

Stephane has a strong background in financial markets and understands the need for continued technological development to drive positive change in trading and market structure workflows. He is leading ING's Financial Market Innovation strategy and also working on the implementation of financial regulations that will impact the client trading activities and transform how the trading floor operates.

Stephane is also a board member for several Fintech market initiatives and trading associations. Since 2005 he has been active with the ACI Financial Market Association - an international non-profit organisation that represents the interests of market professionals in foreign exchange and money markets. Here, he has chaired the ACI FX Committee, representing the views of professionals in the FX sector. He is also an active member of the ECB FX contact group working on the BIS Global FX code of conduct working groups.

Conception Alonso is the head of the International Markets Section in the Directorate General Market Operations at the ECB.

She has been working at the ECB since its inception where she first worked as economist in the Directorate General International Relations. She joined the Directorate Market Operations in 2004 and was involved in the implementation of monetary policy. From 2007 to 2016, she has primarily focused on the design and the implementation of non-standard monetary policy measures (fixed rate full allotment policy, longer term refinancing operations) and in particular the assets purchase programmes (ABSPP, CBPP3 and CSPP). She is heading the International Markets Section since November 2016 and is responsible for FX related matters, market intelligence in several market segments and the management of the ECB’s foreign reserves.

Lisa has over 15 years experience across senior roles spanning treasury, corporate finance & complex derivatives. More recently Lisa co-founded the corporate finance and risk management firm Dukes & King, putting this value driven expertise into practice for a greater number of corporates and funds. She is active in sharing corporate best practice in the application and development of value optimising risk management featuring in a number of global publications. Over the last few years in particular her focus has been structuring innovative new solutions, spanning the entire corporate finance spectrum. These multi-faceted derivatives and treasury solutions consider and balance the often competing factors to deliver the end-to-end solutions, many of which have won awards and high commendations. Lisa is also a member of the FX Joint Standing Committee chaired by the Bank of England and is the UK Representative to the Global FX Committee for the private sector.

David Page is head of macroeconomic research at AXA Investment Managers. He manages a global team of 10 economists and strategists, is a regular guest on Bloomberg TV and other global media. Page joined AXA Investment Managers in July 2014 as a senior economist to provide economics coverage on US and UK economies. He has written extensively on the US economy, covering elections, fundamental monetary policy debates and issues of fiscal stimulus. Before joining AXA Investment Managers, Page worked for four years at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking as a senior economist, primarily covering the UK economy. During this time, he was twice voted the top forecaster in the region in 2011 and 2012 (and came third in 2013). Prior to this, Page worked for 10 years at Investec Bank as a global economist, primarily covering the UK and European economies. Before this, he spent five years in the Government Economic Service, initially working for the energy regulator before joining the UK Debt Management Office – an executive agency of HM Treasury – at its inception in 1998, considering issues of primary issuance for the UK gilt market. Page holds a masters of science degree in economics from the University of Warwick, UK and a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of York.

Bhupen leads the Transactional FX Trading (TFX) business globally for BofA. He has ultimate responsibility for the market risk, pricing, P&L and governance associated with the FX flows the desk manage. As a product function, TFX are responsible for evolving the client offering and ensuring successful technology deployment into the client facing channels; this implies close collaboration and cross-over of activity between GTS and Consumer bank partners.

Bhupen initially joined Bank of America in 2014 based in Hong Kong, where he led the TFX Trading business for the Asia Pacific region. In 2018 Bhupen relocated to London where he was tasked with evolving and growing the TFX business across EMEA. Leaving the Bank in 2021 he spent 18 months at JP Morgan before deciding to return to BofA.

Prior to BofA, Bhupen spent 4 years at HSBC focusing on FX and FX payments. His broader experience covers FX risk management, FX derivatives and structuring. 

Viraj is a Senior Strategist and joined Vanda in 2020 from Arkera where he was Head of Macro & Geopolitics Research. Prior to this, Viraj worked as an FX Strategist at ING and had roles at Barclays Wealth and the Bank of England. Viraj graduated in Economics from the University of Cambridge and is a CFA charterholder.

Hinrich Paul joined Commerzbank in 2010 starting his career in the inhouse consultancy of
Commerzbank. After serving as Executive Assistant for the IB CEO Hinrich joined the trading
desk of Commerzbank’s Treasury department and took over the local trading head for FX
Germany thereafter. Since 2021 Hinrich is responsible for the global FX, IR and
Commodities trading of Commerzbank.

Hinrich holds a Master in Economics from the University of Tübingen.

Alan is the Head of EMEA Business Development for RTGS.global, joining the firm in February 2023. During his career, Alan has held a series of senior leadership positions with firms such as Citi, Barclays, ABN Amro, BNY Mellon and Western Union Business Solutions. He has worked in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and New York in roles such as Global Head of Business Development, Global Head of Product Management, Regional Business Head and Global Head of AML Compliance. Alan is a qualified lawyer with extensive banking experience in payments, liquidity management, treasury management, risk management and tradefinance. An acknowledged Transaction Banking subject matter expert and thought leader, Alan is a regular speaker at leading industry events and advisor to a number of C-suite leadership teams.

John Stead is global head of pre-sales and marketing at smartTrade Technologies. He and his team are responsible for understanding client business requirements and showing how smartTrade can add long-term demonstrable value. Stead has over 15 years of experience in e-FX, working with sell-side clients, real money, brokers and hedge funds. As well as FX, he is particularly focused on the crypto market, the synergies between the asset classes and the benefits it can bring to the wider industry.

Ralf Donner is Head of FICC Execution Strategies at Goldman Sachs. He is responsible for the firm’s client FICC algorithmic execution offering, pre- and intra-trade liquidity and transaction cost analytics, and post-trade reporting.

Ralf started his professional career at ABN Amro in 2006 as an FX options quant, followed by 8 years with Morgan Stanley in London and New York, first in model validation of options pricing models and then in quant sales, focusing on systematic FX trading strategies and FX market microstructure. From 2014-2016 he ran Morgan Stanley’s QSI team in New York.

Ralf holds a Masters in Physics and a Doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Oxford University.

Divay is currently Director, FICC E-Trading & Market Structure at Bank of America. Based in London, Divay is responsible for defining and delivering Bank of America’s strategy on Electronic Trading and Market Structure in FX and Local Currency Trading. Previously, Divay was a Director of FX Products at CME Group managing the exchange’s listed FX franchise in EMEA, with a focus on Emerging Markets and FX Options. Prior to that, Divay held a number of roles on the sell-side in the FX and Derivatives space. Divay holds a Bachelor in Engineering and an MBA from University of Delhi

David Thorne joined ANZ in 2017 having worked for both JP Morgan and RBS in eFX Trading as well working on the buy side. David has been within FX since 2004 and has worked both in Sydney and London. David now heads eFICC at ANZ within Europe and America as well as being responsible globally for liquidity management.

Based in London, Gemma is the global head of the FX Solutions Sales team within HSBC’s Global Markets business. Gemma is responsible for the strategic direction of the team and the origination of new business aswell as the management of clients’ globally across FX Prime Brokerage, FX Overlay and FX solutions for Custody. In her current role, Gemma's client base stretches across the industry, working with hedge funds, financial institutions, asset managers, corporates and asset owners, as well as regulators, vendors and clearing houses. Gemma has helped manage the expansion of the business since she joined HSBC in 2012 and held the position of Global Head of FX Prime Brokerage before her current role.  Prior to HSBC, Gemma spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs, first working in Foreign Exchange sales and FX & Derivatives Prime Brokerage, and then in a broader role covering hedge funds for Listed Derivatives clearing and electronic and algorithmic execution. This wider markets focus provided early exposure to the growth of digitalisation and the changing regulatory environment, which are now significant drivers for our business.

Sam Horowitz’s nearly 30 year career in the financial markets has spanned a variety of trading and management roles across sellside, buyside and intermediary businesses. Sam currently serves on the ACI's UK Executive Committee as well as it's global FX committee. Currently working within Treasury Markets leadership at cross border payments firm Wise, he formerly headed up Global Markets eFX Trading at BBVA, with previous stints also building and managing trading businesses at CMC Markets, Rabobank, UBS Asset Management, Louis Capital FX, Lloyds Bank and Marex Spectron adding to his broad cross market and cross asset experience.

Ross joined CMC Connect as a Business Development Manager in 2019. He is responsible for driving new business growth in EMEA and has over 15 years’ experience working with institutional firms in the FX and CFD space. Ross works with a number of firms using a range of strategies and business models, enabling him to relate and understand client needs.